When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

My friend recently attended a funeral, and midway through the eulogy, he became convinced that it had been written by AI. There was the telltale proliferation of abstract nouns, a surfeit of ...

Artificial intelligence is far from perfect, so alarm bells started ringing as soon as reports surfaced that the Trump administration was planning to use AI to write federal regulations. That concern ...

Google’s Gemini, in particular, according to ProPublica, citing internal communications. The regulations don’t even have to be that good, officials say; “We don’t need the perfect rule on XYZ. We ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Trump administration is planning to use artificial ...

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Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the ...

A shipment of $400,000 worth of lobsters that was stolen this week after it was picked up from an unnamed facility in Taunton highlights a growing and sophisticated theft problem shipping companies ...

Struggling with a problem that seems to require trigonometry? This lesson shows how to solve it without using trigonometry, using two easy methods anyone can apply. With clear logic and step-by-step ...

Amid sky-high inflation, water and energy cuts and prospects for a deal with the U. S. dimming, President Masoud Pezeshkian has apparently thrown up his hands. By Farnaz Fassihi and Leily Nikounazar ...